Goodbyes
are not forever,
Goodbyes
are not the end,
they
only mean I'll miss you until we meet again”!
Hey guys,
this is my last post
from and about my time Australia, well I started writing it in
Australia, which has been amazing!
The past 10 months
have been incredible and so much more than I could have ever asked
for! I ave seen and learned so much in this time – it has been
great!
I am always going to
be a little bit of an Aussie forever now and part of my heart will
stay in Down forever with my family no 2 – my mum no2, my dad no2
and my sister no1 !
Thank you so much
for this incredible, exiting and wonderful last year full with many
nice moments!<3
At home with my
family, at school with friends, everywhere!
I love you so much
and I miss you much!
I hope it wont be
too long until I see you again but I promise i'll come back and we
will be reunited!
And you never know
you might come to Germany even earlier? :)
But before we start
crying already first read what happened this week, so many great
moments and more memories for ever! FOREVER!!! I will never forget
you Australia!
Fr, April 24th
Em and I slept
together again this night, but in my bed this time, and we knew since
yesterday evening that EM was going to school again but school was
still closed.. Well thats what we tought.. I slept a bit longer but
at around 7.20am Greg came into my room and said “School is open
for seniors only. Do you want to go?” A the same time I got a call
from Ebony asking if I am going to school, so I sadi yes of course!
It was great! We
were solid 16 people – six year 12 students and 10 year 11s hahah,
so cool! I had another student in every of my classes, which was
pretty funny! We baked some scones in Food tec, talked about the
cyclone in English, did a bit of chemistry and had a look at the
turtle and jabbies.
I
did a squat work out with my teacher in SLR and in Business we had a
great time talking haha, a great day!!! I loved it!
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| HAhaa, ebby! |
In the afternoon Em
and I made some ANZAC Slice for ANZAC Day tomorrow, it was after
Hannahs Recipe and they were really good! :)
Because it was our
last fish and chips night, robyn bought some salt and pepper squids,
which we had for entree and then our traditional fish with salad and
sweet potao in the oven, so yummy!!!
Sa, April 25th
Today is ANZAC day
I am not sure if you
have heard about ANZAC day, it is a day where all australians think
and rememorate all the veterans and soldiers who fought for Australia
since world war I.
April 25th
is when the Battle of Gallipoli was fought and many Australians died
in the battle.
I think it is a
great thing to have ANZAC day to think about all the soldiers and
thank them for the freedom we have!
We watched the big
march in Sydney yon TV and at 2pm we went to Ourimbah where Em and I
machrced for our schools – a great experience for me!
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Ems school marching
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| My school marching |
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I even got chosen to lay down the wreath with Dean, our school captain – thank you MR Angel!
It was a great
experience for me, because we don’t celebrate ANZAC Day in Germany
and it was completely new for me!
At around 5pm Greg
drove me to Ebbys house where I stayed for a sleepover – finally!!
<3 Ebby got the power back in the morning so perfect timing, haha
:)
We had BBQ for
dinner, started watching Divergent and did lots of other things. :)
Su, April
26th
Eb and I woke up at
around 8am today and we finished watching Divergent in bed to wake up
a bit. It was only about 20 min left so it was perfect! It is a great
movie!!!! Love it :)
We then went for a
walk about 1 hour to see the horses and take some photos, which was
really really nice! Ebby and I we both love horses so it is perfect!
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| Letos goo! |
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| Big tree! |
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| <3 |
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| playing the piano |
We
had an aussie brekkie vegemite on toast and a black tea
Thank you much for
the great sleepover Ebby! <3
We had a lovely
morning and Ebby drove my home at around 12.20pm or so, well she
drove and her mum sat next to her! It was amazing to see her drive,
something we both wanted to for a very long time!
And then..
Em opened the door
for us and when I walked in everybody said “SURPRISE”! IT was
soooo nice! IT was a big, massive surprise farewell party Robyn had
organised for me and it was an incredible and wonderful day!
When I came in..
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| Surprise.. |
She organised it
with Makayla and Ebony and the whole family came, my closest school
friends, neigbours, everybody who played a role in my life here! IT
was a great day, to good to be true!
I felt so much like
in a movie, because everything was perfect! The decoration was great,
Em did a slideshow which was so nice, we had ballons.. it looked
great! Well dine everybody!
Greg cooke on BBQ
(sausages) and we had different cheese and bikkies and the delicious
spinach dip – I love it! IT is spinach and sour cream, and it is
fabulous, I am addicted to it!
I talked to
everybody again and we all had a great arvo, laughing and talking
about the past 10 month, which have gone so quickly!
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| Selfie time! |
Robyn had organised
a chocolate cake from sarah lee, Em made some delicious caramel
slices and we had some other desserts, which were all really, really
good!
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| Cutting the cake together! |
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Yum, it was great!
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Before we could eat
them Robyn made a speech, which was beautiful and she started crying
and it was so sad! She said such beautiful things and I know we will
always stay in touch for ever! You ARE my second family forever now
and my here has been so much more I could have ever asked for!
Thank you so much!
Greg made a speech
as well and Em as well and then it was my turn of course.. In the end
we were all so sad and I cried a little bit as well. Ebony and
Makayla cried as well which made me even more sad! :'( I DONT WANT TO
LEAVE!!!!
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| Awww Ebby and Mikki!! |
I got some lovely
presents on the day, a really nice bracelet with 5 australia charms,
a kangaroo, a a koala, a safe travel coin, a boomerang and one of the
shape of Australia – thank you so much!! It will always remind me
of all the fun times we had!
I also got a candle,
a Ken Duncan Poster and 2 books (thanks Sophie xxx), the best
Jambaroo Photo ever and lots of caramello koalas and lots of
beautiful cars, which I will put in my room back at home in Germany!
WE took lots of
photos of course with friends, you can never have enough memories ,
here are some:
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| Group photo |
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| Fun times! |
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| Selfie stick!! |
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| Jack and Luke and Em :) |
This one is my absolute favourite, because I will
never forget you and I will aslways heave you in my heart!
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| I <3 u! |
Makayla and Ebony
were the last ones to be picked up and when Makaylas mm came, she
came in a new car..
it was Makaylas
first car!!!!!!!!!!
Isn't this so cool?!
She got a silver Suzuki Swift, really cool!
Thank you so much
again for organising the best suprise party ever! It was a absolute
amazing day!
Afer everybody left,
we took some family photos to remember this day forever, with the
selfie stick of course ;) Best present ever Em <3
Thank you soo much
toyou three for organising this special event for me and keeping it
secret! I know how much work and effort you put in, it was fantastic!
I cant thank cou enough – the more than perfect farewell!
AT around 7.30pm we
skyped my mum and dad in Germany for the last time again, next time I
wil be on the other side of the screen as Greg said.. this will be
weird..
Mo, April 27th
I had a very.. lets
say..interrupted night last night, thinking about my time here and I
also cried a little bit ..:-(
It was very cold
this morning, the coldest morning of this year so far and we were all
pretty tired.
I walked to school,
I really enjoy walking in the morning and I tried to look at
everything to remember it, because today was my second last of
school..
WE had Roll call in
the hall like every monday and Mrs Heaps told everyone that it was my
second last day and so everybody knows now and they all said we'll
miss you – very sad!
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We took a class photo in food tech – this is my class :)
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Next was english and
my english teacher MRs Marsia gave me a present at the end of the
lesson, which was a book called “Emma” by Jane Austen. It was
really really nice, thank you very much!
In Recess we sat at
our place from last year which was really nice and had a nice time
:)) Next was maths, my last maths lesson.. :-( then chemistry and
SLR, where we layed boccie, which was quite funny.
It was a very nice
school day, I had so much fun and I cant believe that my time here is
almost over. I wasn’t really sad at school today, but I think it is
because I cant really realise what is going on and my brain doenst
understand that I wont see all these great people for a long long
time!
Makayla drove me to
the primary school after school in her new car – yeha, really cool!
I had a massive
cooking and baking arvo, did some brownies, a cake and cooked dinner
fo rmy family – chicken schnitzel, yum! I love cooking so I had a
great arvo!
I love cooking
dinner for my family because it makes them all so happy and it is
always so nice!
So yeah, this was
Monday, my second last day of school...
Sorry if some
day-reports are a bit weird, but I don’t have much time at the
moment, because there are more important things of course, but I am
trying my best to write as good as possible!
Tu, April 28th
Last day of school
today...
I doesn’t feel
real at all that today was my last day of school! :`(
I waked to school in
the morning for the last time, I really enjoyed walking :) The first
two periods Ebony Makayla and I spend running around the school
getting signatures from the diffrent teachers to sign me out and
preparing their slideshow they did for me, while I was having my
speech.
We took some photos
while running througt the school, here are some :)
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| In the school |
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| me practising the speech ;) |
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| besties |
We then had assembly
and this one was a very special one! IT was my farewell assembly..
Really sad!
Mr Angel the
pricipal had a speech which was beautiful and I had some tears in my
eyes. He even mentioned my two brothers at home and my two rabbits
and it was really really nice!
HE gave me a pen and
a glass which has a Lisarow high on it and he said they ususally give
it to teacher that leave but I deserve on too .. So ncie!!
Than it was my turn
to have a speech, which I was sooo nervous and scared of the whole
time! Makayla and Ebony made a slide show which was shown while I was
talking, so nice! Thank you so much Mikki and Ebby <3 !! IT was
beautiful! Ill miss xou too so much!
It wasn’t as scary
as I thought to talk infront of the whole school about 900 people but
still scary! But I am proud I did it and apparently it was pretty
good :)
Then it was Mrs
Heaps turn, our year advisor. She made another wonderful speech and
then she gave me a massive car where all the year 11 had signed and a
little bag with a present in it.
You wil never guess
what it was!
It was a pandora
bracelett !Sooo beautiful! I always wanted one and I almost bought
one the other day.. It was the most beautiful moment when I got the
bracelet and the whole year 11 had given money to buy it for me! It
had two charms on it the opera house and it says sydney on it and a
koala. Tehy picked the best charms they could have every picked –
thank you so much everybody! I cant believe I got it and it will
always remind me of Lisarow High School and how great my time here
has bee!!!
Greg and Robyn and
Em also came to the Assembly which made it even more special for me-
thank you so much for coming!
IT was so weird to
sit up on the stage and not with all the other students and I was so
nervous but I had my two best friends with me which supported me so
much, I couldn’t have done it without you!
I also got my Duke
of Ed bronze award :)
Afte Assembly we ate
the brownies I made yesterday and took a polaroid photo and talked
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| Group photo :) |
I cant belive I wont
see all the people again for a very long time and it was so sad to
say good bye, also because it doesn’t feel real to me!
We had another
Assembly, ANZAC Assembly after recess which went for the whole period
and was really good. IT was my last period , because of short tuesday
and so I had to say good bye to almost everyone, i'll still me
friends at 6pm for my farwell dinner but ill tell you later!
I also got a very
nice ard from MRs Heaps and I just cant thank her and the whole
school and Makayla and Ebony enough for everything they have done for
me! It is amazing! So many great surprises, it feels like in a dream
or movie!
After school Makayla
and I went down to Maccas after saying good bye to all the teachers
and stayed there till 1.30pm. We took some selfies with some other
guys of our year we met down there :)
I thought I would
cry a lot but I think I couldn’t because it feels so unreal and I
just believe my last day here at lisarow high is over! It was great
and fanstastic!
At home I finished
doing my aussie cake for my farewell dinner tonight and it was so
much harder to do the icing than I thought.. well I think you can
still recognise the aussie flag, hahah :P I hope it takes good ..
Hopefully..
Greg took Robyn to
the doctor because she wasn’t feeling well at all, I hope it is
nothing bad.
UPDATE: Luckily it
is nothing bad they found out probably just a bit stressed!
My farewell party
was great! Greg drove me to the restaurant where we all met at 6pm.
We were 11 people: Makayla, Sarah, Hannah, Emily, Sophie Felicity,
Holly, Ella, Megan, Bec and me.
It was soo nice, we
all had a great night! It was all you can eat Pizza and Pasta and you
can order as many times as you want. I ordered a pizza with pesto
base, prawns, sundried tomatoes and feta cheese, so good! We shared
all the pizzas and pasta so we could all try different things :)
And then for dessert
we had the cake I made before :)
I got so many
beautiful and wonderful presents and cards, thank you so much
everybody<3!!
I got an amazing
photobook, some beautiful opera house earing, some flowers (roses :)
), a necklace, and some chocolate!! Thanks! You are the best friends
ever!
We took many photos
of course, 9 on my polaroid camera and had so much fun!
Here are some!
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Group photo :)
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| hannah and me ! |
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| Selfietime :) |
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| Group photo outside ;) |
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| <3 |
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| opening the presents :) |
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| me and miiki :) |
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| hahha Emily and Holly! |
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| Holly, MEgan and Sarah! |
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Selfie!
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| holly was singing the australian anthem on there hahah :) |
They even carried
me, haha, you are the craziest best friends I could have ever wished
for!
It was a perfect
farewell dinner and we had so much fun and laughed a lot and holly
and bec even sang the australian anthem for me!
It was so said when
we got picked and some of my friends started crying. :`( I am going
to miss you all so much! IT still doesn’t feel real to me, I cant
believe I wont see you again for a long time....
Good night,,
We, April 29th
I was feelign quite
sad in the mornign so I decided to go for a quick run at 8am, haha,
but it was great! When I came back I had so much energy :)
My whole morning was
pretty much packing and deciding what to take and not.. Looking at
all my things I have bought and I got.. pretty sad.. Some photos of
packing here:
PHOTOS PACKING
My
room and the rumpers room where a pretty pig mess haha, but I am
really happy how goo dit went. I had about 29.2 kilos when I weight
my suitcases, but a few things were still missing, but that should be
alright I think :)
At around 6pm
Makayla and her sister Hannah and her mum came to our house to say
goodbye, well her mum and Hannah and Hannah gave me a little present.
It was a charm for my pandora bracelet, a little suitcase – it is
beautiful – thank you so much Hannah! <3 Ill miss you so much!
We had Peanut Butter
chicken for dinner, my fave dish and we watched a movie that I have
been doing the whole year about my life in Australia which was 2
hours long! It was a very very nice “last supper” as robyn called
it and we ate the cake I made on monday for dessert!
When we watched the
movie Robyn started crying and at end EM and I were crying as well,
it was so sad.. :'( I just DONT want to leave.. I cant believe my
time here is almost over, there is so much more to do and see and it
all doesn’t feel real..
Em and I took a
polaroid photo of us in our onsies – memories for ever!
And Em slept in my
bed for the last time.. :'(
Thursday, April
30th
In the morning Em,
Greg and me had our last normal school brekki together and Em
challenged me if I would be able to eat a whole slice of vegemite
toast the way dad has it – and this sooo much vegemite! I said
sure, and so he did it for me and I ate it, it was alright, but I
have to say I repefer it with elss vegemite.
She went to school
then, and later in the morning she had an audition for a festival to
be the MC (Who introduces every act) and she did really well!
I continued and
finished packing eventually in the ealry afternoon.
Greg and I went to
see Nan so I could give her my present and say goodbye, which was
really sad.. but we said we stay in tough by sending letters to each
other :)
When we came back
home picekd Robyn up and went straight to the nursery where we
finally bought the avocado tree – I thought a lot about a special
present I could gove to Greg Robyn and Em and I thought a tree would
be great so they can always remember me when they eat the avocados :)
And they loved it! We didn’t get to plant it together, but next
time I come and visit them, there will be fruits on it hopefully and
we can eat it togeher :)
PHOTO AVOCADO
I continued to pack
and my room looked so empty, so unreal..
FOOT FINSHED PACKING
FOOT ROOM
I went down to pick
EM up with Greg because Emily friends wanted to say Goodbye to me and
they had a really nice present for me – thanks Alysha, Emily and
Zoe! I hope I ll see you next summer!
BACK at home Em got
changed, I threw the last things in my handbag and said Bye to my
room , the dogs and the house.
WE were a bit late,
so we had to give each other our present very quickly. I made a
photobook for my family, and I found a stone in the shape of a heart
on the beach and wrote family on it and the avocado tree of course. I
had some individual presents as well. I really hope I could show them
how fantastic this year has been for me with the presents and how
much I appreciate what they did for me!
I got a beanie bear
from Em, which I called Aussie, a realy nice little statue of a heart
about the bond of sisters a notebook and 2 really cute little koalas
to put in my hair :) Thanks Em they are lovely!
FOO EM PRENESTS
I also got four more
charms for my pandora bracelet form the three – I couldn’t believ
it when I opened it! They got me the family charm- because we are a
family forever, a camera, because I take so many photos and I just
love photos, an Aussie heart, because I love Australia and a hand to
guide me and watch after me – they are amazing!! I cant believe you
got them for me, they are amazing!!
Robyn Greg and Em
made a beautiful litle book for me, with a message from each of them
for me – I read it in the car and had some tears in my eyes.. :'(
It is beautiful!
We then got into the
car and it was about 2 hours or a bit more to get to the airport, so
much traffic! But greg is a great driver, so it was all good! It was
dark when we arrived, and we got a nice last view over Sydeny on the
way.
My two best friends
Makayla and Ebony caught the train to th airport after school and we
met them at the Emirates check in.
IT was soooo great
to see my two besties there at the airport, I really cant believe you
two came! IT means the world to me!
We went to a
restaurant to sit down and had some dinner, some chips, meatlovers
pizza, salt and pepper squid and a ceasar salad and we had some
celery and apples I brought from home as well :)
It was a great last
dinner, we laughed a lot and just didn’t feel like the last time
I'll see them for a while Oo :'(
POLAROI DPHOTO AND
SELFIES
I gave them their
pesents and they also got me some presents which were beautiful! I
got an amazing photobook, whith lots of photos and great memories,
which I will keep forever and it means so mcuh to me – I ll keep as
my little treasure together with my pandora bracelet.I got another 3
charms from Makayla and Ebony, an aussie charm and a plane and the
letter “S” - it is incredible how full my bracelt now is! Adn it
tells a story – my Australian story! It is unbelievable how
everybody gave me this amazing bracelet together, it is ag reat
memory I will keep forever with all the other memories of course!
FOT ABDNRA
BRACELT
We than had to go to
the place where we had to go separate ways: I had to go trough
customs and they couldn’t come with me.. :'O
It was so sad to say
good bye, I don’t know how I did it!
We hugged each other
so many times and couldn’t let each other go.. I don’t want to
say bye, but I have to..
FOTO POLAORIND
FOTO GOOD BYE
I love you all sooo
much!!!! I hope I see you again, no I know we will see each other
again!!!!!!!
We all cried so
much, Robyn, my little sis Em ( I love you so much Em), Greg as well
a bit, Makayla, Ebony and me..#YOu know I have oyu always with me –
in my heart forever!!
As Juli is really
sad right now, I made her write about a bit of our journey back:
After I went through
all the customs, crying and being really sad, I made my way quickly
to the gate, after I met Juli and a few other exchange students, I
knew, I went to the bookshop to get a book for the 20 hours plane
ride, I didn't end up reading.
We went to board as
one of the last people and the nice lady at the check-in gave me the
seat closest to Juli, so while we were on the plane we had a couple
of “toilettedates”, where we met up in the bathroom to talk and
cry, we were both really sad and all we wanted, was the plane to turn
around and we where talking about, how we bouth wish, that this wold
be the trip we made 10 months ago, when we went from Dubai to Sydney.
The first plane trip
was pretty good, as I had nice people next to me I could talk to and
so I spend most of the time with talking and sleeping and couldn't
manage to watch a whole movie haha.
I also read my
“Farewellbook”, where I let all my Aussie friends write in and it
was so nice to read all the nice messages, you wrote. Thanks a lot –
realising my exchange is over really broke my heart.
We got some dinner,
then a pie as a snack and then some brekkie, so much food! IT was
actually pretty alright :)
FOTO FOOD
After 14 hours we
arrived in Dubai, where it took as a while to get threw all the
Security and to get to the bus, which brought as to Terminal A, where
our plane to Munich would leave from. As Juli is going there as well,
we stayed together the whole time. We decided to get a trolley for
alll our hand luggage, which made walking around a lot easier.
FOTO TROLLEY
We went to the gate
and it was four o_clock German time, but we could contact our Aussie
familys and it was nice to have a little chat. It was great to be
able say hello and tel tehm we arrived well in Dubai!
We had a little look
into a couple of shops and I bought a postcard, after we went threw
the first boarding, we sat down and I started reading Makyalas entry
in my book, which bought tears into my eyes. I only read half of it,
as it is such a long letter and we had to board.
FOTO PLANE
BEFOREBEOARDING IN DUBAI
Juli and I were sitting in the same row,
but two people in between, but the nice stewardess organized us to
get two seats together, which was really awesome, we talked a lot,
about everything and showed each other our movies and photos, before
we talked more ahaha.
FOROS PLANE
We got another
breakfast on the plane and then another meal – lunch, so much
food!!!
FOO FOOD
I also spend some
time catching up on writing my blog, because I didn’t have had time
to do it the last few days, too busy!!
Only 0 hours 44 min
till we land in Munich and I can see my mum and dad my two brothers!
<3
So guys , this is my
last post about my time in Australia from Australia or the plane ;)
The next one will be
from Germany,
See ya guys and I
hope you enjoyed reading and following my posts!
Love you Sophi
Thank you again fro
this great year Robyn, Greg, Em, Makayla, Ebony and everybody else !!
<3 xxxooxoxo
